but at noon, they and the nature of everything is not okay over here. there ain t no aid. there ain t nothing going on right about now. everything is just trying to survive. just two days ago, this was paradise. but now everyone here is trying to take stock of exactly what this new world means for their daily lives. when will power come back? when can they reopen their business? and when will they realize, again, they re worried about what they have to eat. already, the search for food. i think the worst was when the rain started coming in and howling and just the noises outside and not knowing. we ve been curfewed in. jamie and brandon went to the nearby island of st. thomas to help after hurricane irma.
life may cease to exist for months. thanks for the reporting. now for the u.s. virgin islands, the island of st. croix. help is starting to arrive, but the island is still without power. st. croix suffering in silence so far. that is fema flying over st. croix today, making their assessment. we have just flown in from the east. from beach resort to ghost town in a matter of hours. a curfew emptying the streets
island of st. croix. st. croix has really been the base camp now for a lot of the relief efforts, because it had not been hit previously, and a hit to st. croix with those north bands, as al roker was talking, is really going to be very, very difficult for ow islands to recover from. i want to talk to you, congresswoman, about the effect and recovery. tourism is a, a very major part of the economy in the virgin islands and, in fact, stephanie pointed out, there may be a percentage one might ascribe to tour pit tourism. many businesses are dependent on tourism because they serve the people working because there is a tourist industry. what is the best way to bring recovery back to the virgin islands? thanks so much. we are going to miss that season of tourism. some of it will be absorbed by the island of st. croix, depending on how its hit, but
and across the island, people like eugene and michelle have also lost their homes to irma. the worst storms they have experienced on the islands. many say they will stay to rebuild. but michelle and eugene are not sure. they re friends that we ve made. we want to stay with them and rebuild and restart our lives, but i m scared. we don t have a place of our own. it s hard to get food, water, gas. it took us three hours ju to get ice. reporter: for now they are simply in shock over what they lost. good thing john saved us. good thing john saved us, yes. so many stories of loss, but
went off in the middle of this paradise. it s a different island. it s like fire filled with the island. we lose the island. that s really terrible. this is the reality for the island of tortola and its residents. irma destroyed infrastructure, critical supplies like food, water and fuel are limited. the island destroyed. completely. reporter: the damage only seems to worsen as we drive down the hillside roads into the island s capitol. crippled communications are sending residents to phone and internet businesses, their only hope of connecting with the outside world picking up a wi-fi signal. here we found one of guzmam s neighbor fighting challenges of